Hannam & Partners , a corporate finance advisory business based in London, has become a member of Global Special Situations , an alliance of investment banking firms with focus on special situations transactions. Other partners include SSG Capital Advisors LLC in the U.S., Saxenhammer & Co...

Sean Dooley and Christian Klawunder have been promoted to vice president and associate, respectively, in Matrix Capital Markets Group Inc. ’s Downstream Energy & Retail Group. In addition, Carlton Zesch , an analyst, and John Ellison , an associate, have joined the downstream Energy &...

Howard Brod Brownstein of The Brownstein Corporation has been appointed as an independent director of Pico Holdings Inc., which has business segments that acquire and develop water resource and storage operations in the Southwest and real estate operations in California, Washington, North and South...

David A. Agay has been named the new managing member of the Chicago office of McDonald Hopkins LLC , succeeding Richard N. Kessler, who served as the managing member in Chicago since 2007. Agay, a corporate restructuring attorney who joined the firm in 2011, previously served as the Chicago office’...